Paying for a home and the bills, sentence 20
Hot water costs energy to heat, so long showers cost money and leave less for the next person.
Who acts: Hot water, long showers · What happens: cost, heat, leave · To what, where: energy, money, less
This is a sentence of the lesson «Paying for a home and the bills» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hot water, long showers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 water | amod |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 costs | nsubj |
| 3 | costs | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 costs | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 heat | mark |
| 6 | heat | heat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 energy | acl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 money | punct |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 showers | amod |
| 10 | showers | shower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cost | nsubj |
| 11 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 costs | parataxis |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cost | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cost | conj |
| 15 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 person | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 18 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 person | amod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 costs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cost | present | Hot water | energy | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme energy=Value | ||||
| 2 | heat | to-infinitive | Hot water not said here | energy not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cost | present | long showers | money | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme money=Value | ||||
| 4 | leave | present | long showers not said here | less | for the next person | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent less=Theme for person=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:adult-life:006-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills.lesson:20.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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